<p>One of the great things about the Athena Talks in Stockholm is that it is such an intensely organized event with an impressive diversity of ideas and an amazing efflorescence of urban approaches and perspectives. This lively assemblage of leading female urban scholars will have long-term consequences in regard to future debates on architecture and urban design, surely providing a vigorous discussion at the present.</p>
- Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York, architectural critic, writer, urbanist and president of Terreform,
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Biographical note
Tigran Haas is the former director of International Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) at KTH, Stockholm and the current director of the New Halcyon Athenaeum Laboratory (HAL). He is a tenured associate professor of Urban Planning + Urban Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, and a guest research scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Cambridge in the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). Haas spans and covers one of the largest and highest profile urbanism networks in the world. He has written over a hundred scholarly articles and completed ten books. Haas is also the recipient of multiple international awards for leadership and management.